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Atlanta to host 2025 MLB All-Star Game after losing 2021 game over objections to voting law

Major League Baseball will play its 2025 All-Star Game in Atlanta, four years after moving the event from Truist Park to Denver's Coors Field over objections to changes in Georgia's voting rights laws. 

November 16, 2023
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HBCUs recruit international athletes for tennis. Some are calling it into question

When it comes to tennis, many Historically Black Colleges and Universities recruit international players, despite growth in the sport among African Americans. (Story aired on ATC on Nov. 14, 2023.)

November 16, 2023
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  • Julien Virgin
GPB News NPR

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  • Sports

HBCUs recruit international athletes for tennis. Some are calling it into question

When it come to tennis, many historically Black colleges and universities recruit international players, despite growth in the sport among African Americans

November 15, 2023
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  • Julien Virgin
Former Pittsburgh Penguins forward Adam Johnson in action during an NHL game in Columbus, Ohio, in 2017. Police in England arrested a man Tuesday on suspicion of manslaughter in connection to Johnson's death in October.

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Man arrested in the skate death of former NHL player Adam Johnson is released on bail

Johnson died last month after an opposing player's skate cut his neck during a game. An unnamed man was arrested and charged with suspicion of manslaughter in connection with Johnson's death.

November 15, 2023
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  • Ayana Archie
When the Lewiston High School Blue Devils boys' soccer team won a state championship, they brought joy to a community that was rocked by a mass shooting in late October.

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Lewiston High School's state soccer title is a salve after last month's mass shooting

"We just wanted to give back to the city with all they have gone through," Tegra Mbele, who scored the winning goal for the Lewiston Blue Devils, told a local newspaper.

November 13, 2023
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  • Bill Chappell
Hanna Minenko and Yakov Toumarkin, of Israel, carry their country's flag during the opening ceremony in the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

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Russia says International Olympic Committee is giving Israel a pass on Gaza

Russia has been sanctioned by the IOC for actions taken as part of the invasion of Ukraine. Officials in Moscow say Israel is being treated differently by the IOC as fighting continues in Gaza.

November 08, 2023
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  • Brian Mann
The Buffalo Bills' Damar Hamlin took 10 Cincinnati medical workers out for dinner — and told them he's setting up scholarships in their names. He's seen here before the Bills' game against the Cincinnati Bengals.

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  • Sports

Damar Hamlin funds 10 scholarships in the names of 'heroes' who saved his life

Ten months after his horrifying collapse halted an NFL game, Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin returned to Cincinnati with surprises for the medical staff who worked to save him.

November 07, 2023
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  • Bill Chappell
GPB News NPR

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  • Sports

Breaking down the tush push — the play with odes to both football and rugby

Is it a football or rugby move? The tush push is a highly effective play that NFL teams, most notably the Philadelphia Eagles, are employing when in a pinch for an inch.

November 06, 2023
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  • Jason Fuller and
  • Justine Kenin
George Washington Carver High School junior Braylon Jakes, left, learned during Friday’s assembly that the NFL is providing two tickets for him and a guest to attend Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas. He was nominated by Kalin Tate, right, a 2014 Shaw High School graduate who is the NFL’s sponsorship coordinator. 11/03/2023 Mike Haskey

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NFL surprises this Georgia teen with free Super Bowl tickets after family tragedy

A year after his parents and sister were killed in a car crash while driving home from his football game, a Muscogee County School District student got a spirit-boosting surprise from the NFL.

November 06, 2023
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  • Mark Rice
Las Vegas police arrest members of the Culinary Workers Union during a rally along the Strip on Oct. 25 in Las Vegas.

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  • Sports

A potential Las Vegas workers strike could throw a wrench in the upcoming F1 race

Some 35,000 workers with the Culinary and Bartenders Union could walk off the job Friday if no contract deal is reached. The Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix is scheduled to take place later this month.

November 06, 2023
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  • Joe Hernandez
From left, second place finisher Albert Korir of Kenya, first place finisher Tamirat Tola, of Ethiopia, and third place finisher Shura Kitata, also from Ethiopia, pose after the men's division of the New York City Marathon on Sunday.

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Tamirat Tola sets new NYC marathon record for men's race

Ethiopia's Tola broke the 12-year-old record for the course. Hellen Obiri of Kenya won the women's race.

November 05, 2023
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  • Emma Bowman
GPB News NPR

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  • Mental Health

Nike Run Club's oddly mindful coach

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Chris Bennett about his work as a running coach on the Nike Run Club App.

November 04, 2023
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Indiana University coach Bobby Knight, here in the 1987 semifinals, led his Hoosiers to the NCAA men's basketball championship that year.

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Hall of Fame basketball coach Bobby Knight has died at 83

Nicknamed "the General," Knight spent nearly three decades at Indiana University and several seasons at Texas Tech. His teams racked up wins, but he was controversial on and off the court.

November 02, 2023
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  • Cheryl Corley and
  • Patrick Beane
A United Airlines jetliner lifts off from a runway at Denver International Airport on June 10, 2020, in Denver. Two United Airlines flight attendants have filed a lawsuit against the company, alleging they were excluded from working charter flights for the Los Angeles Dodgers because of their race, age, religion and appearance.

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2 flight attendants sue United Airlines for discrimination on Dodgers charter flights

Dawn Todd and Darby Quezada had spent more than a decade trying to join the airline's program that staffs the Los Angeles Dodgers' flights.

November 01, 2023
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  • Jonathan Franklin
GPB News NPR

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  • Sports

Plans for a 3-story judges' stand for the 2024 Summer Olympics criticized

France is hosting the 2024 Olympics, but the surfing competition will be in French Polynesia. NPR's A Martinez talks to surfer Tahurai Henry about why the stand is causing concern.

November 01, 2023
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